[Yasotay]

I'm pretty sure your dates about the Elbe are off alittle. The 2nd AD crossed on the 12th of April and that bridgehead was crushed. I think elements of the 2nd AD were then transfered over to the 83rd's bridgehead at Barby. Berlin was almost undefended until the 56th Pz Corps was forced into the city. I think Simpson could have taken it because you are correct about surrendering to the West.

[schu]

My understanding is that the Allies had agreed to stop at the Elbe. If we had moved on Berlin, and even taken it, would Stalin have just let us do so? If things did then get belligerent and there was all out war between the Russians and the Allies, what is the "end state." Would the Allies have had to go all the way to Moscow?